Inflammable shell



July 22, 1924. 1,502,460

3 H. SAFE-0RD INFLAMMABLE SHELL Filed Jan. 25, 1924 Patented July 22,1924.

- UNITED STATES HENRY SAFFO'RD, 0F LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

INFLAM'MABLE SHELL.

Application filed January 25, 1924. Serial No. 688,487.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SAFFORD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Little Rock, in the county of Pulaski, State of Arkansas,have invented a new and useful InflammableShell; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a fulhclear. and exact.

description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to inflammable shells or projectiles, and has forits object to provide a device of this character wherein a shell isprovided with a container having an inflammable material, for instancegasoline, and which inflammable material is ignited upon impact of theshell with an obend of the bursting charge container on a spider,detachably mounted in apertures in the inner wall of the shell, whichspider also maintains the inflammable liquid container in position.

With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in thecombination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown inthe drawings, described and claimed, it being understood that changes inthe recise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope ofwhat is claimed without departing from, the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a vertical transverse sectional view throughthe projectile.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line22 of Figure 1. l

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the main body of theshell, the chamber 3 of which is adapted to receive an inflammableliquid container 4, in which an kind of inflammable liquid may bedispose for instance gasoline. Threaded on the open end of the main body1 of the projectile at 5 is a collapsible cap 6, which cap is ada ted tobe crushed upon impact of the shel, for discharging a bursting charge 7in the container 8 for shattering the container 4 and ignitingthe'liq'uid within the container 4. The bursting charge 7 may be formedfrom any kind of explosive, preferably dynamite, which will explode uponimpact, however it is to be understood that any other kind of adetonating charge may be used.

Disposed within the chamber 9 of the collapsible cap 6 is a cylindricalmovable casing 10, the wall 11 of which is provided with a conicallyshaped opening 12, which receives the conically shaped end 13 of thebursting charge casing 8, thereby holding the same in axial positionwith its igniting cap 14, in registration with the firing pin 15 carriedby the wall 16 of the cap 6, where said firing pin upon crushing of thecap 6 will pierce the firing cap 14, and ignite the bursting charge 7.The lower end of the bursting charge casing 8 is disposed in a channelof a bushing 17, which bushing is threaded into the annular portion 18of a spider 19, the arms 20 of which are disposed in recesses 21 in thebase 1, consequently the bursting charge casing is supported in a mannerwhereby it cannot become easily ignited or exploded except upon thecrushing of the cap 1. It will be noted that all of the bursting chargesupporting mechanism is disposed within the cap of the shell, and theshell may be easily and quickly assembled. It will also be noted thedevice is simple in construction, the arts reduced to a minimum and byproviding the adjustable bushing 17, the bursting charge casing 8 may bepositivel held by the bushing in combination with the wall 11 of thelining 10, and that different lengths of bursting charge casings 8 maybe held, which would be desirable according to the kind of burstingcharge used.

The invention having been. set forth What is claimed as new and usefulis 1. An inflammable shell comprising a base having a chamber therein, acap threaded on said base, a liquid container disposed within thechamber of the base, a spider adjacent the forward end of the liquidcontainer and having diverging radial arms, the outer ends of said armsbeing disposed in recesses in the wall of the chamber of the base, an

adjustable bushing axially disposed in the spider, a bursting chargecontainer having its inner end mounted in the adjustable bushing, theouter end of the bursting charge container being tapered and mounted ina tapered opening of a 5115130111, a cap carried by the outer end of theursting charge container and a firing pin carried b the threaded cap inregistration with the ursting char container cap.

2. A ell comprising a chambered base a chambered cap threaded on theouter end of said base, a liquid container disposed within the base, aspider supported in the outer end of said base and having radial arms,the ends of said arms bein mounted in recesses in the wall of the camber of the base adjacent the outer end' of the liquid disposed withinthe container a casin g engaging the arms of giambeaed cap}; an h e i era ursting c arge casing supportz by said spider and casing within themom-10o being tapered and supported in a tapere opening, and a firingpin carried by the threaded cap in registration with the bursting chargecasing.

In testimony whereof I have signed'my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

. HENRY SAFFORD. Witnesses J. H. RANDALL, E. D. Hanson.

